Service level objectives and error budgets

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article · en · 지식 기준일 2026-09-15 · 변경일 2026-09-23, 리비전 2 · reviewed (검토 기록됨 2026-09-23)

An SLO is a target for a service level indicator such as availability or latency; the difference between the target and 100% is an error budget that decides how much risk releases may take.

What it is

The SRE book distinguishes indicators (SLIs: measured quantities such as the fraction of successful requests or the 99th-percentile latency), objectives (SLOs: target values for indicators over a window) and agreements (SLAs: contracts with consequences). The error budget is 1 - SLO: with a 99.9% monthly availability objective, about 43 minutes of downtime per month are acceptable.

Why it matters

Objectives turn "reliable" into a number that engineering and product can negotiate. The error budget converts that number into a policy: while budget remains, releases and experiments may proceed; once it is spent, reliability work takes priority over features.

How to apply

Choose few indicators that reflect user experience (success ratio, latency at a percentile, freshness).
Measure them at the edge the user sees, not inside the service.
Set objectives slightly below what the system currently achieves, then tighten deliberately.
Alert on budget burn rate rather than on every blip.

Pitfalls

100% is not an objective; it forbids all change. Averages hide tail latency; use percentiles. Objectives without an agreed policy for exhausted budgets are decoration.

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